Thursday 22 December 2011

Tim Minchin: Jesus Wept

If you've been on Twitter this afternoon, you may be a bit bored of hearing about this by now.
But if not...
Tim Minchin wrote a special song about our lord Jesus for Jonathan Ross's christmas special and recorded it last week.
As you can see above, it's a gentle comedy number pointing out that claims that Mr Christ had supernatural magical powers are rather silly.
The day before broadcast the song has been ordered to be cut by Peter Fincham, ITV's director of television.
Possibly because he thinks it's still the 15th Century or something.
Here's Tim's "whiny little rant about it" on his blog.
If you think this decision is rather silly, why not send a polite email to viewerservices@itv.com?*

* It's worth noting that ITV's website does not show a direct email for complaints, but you can always phone them; "Calls cost 5p per minute from a BT landline..."

1 comment:

  1. PS I love seeing Tom Cruise laughing along there - cause Scientology makes so much fucking sense, doesn't it?

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